Criminal Law Library Blog

The New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library has acquired many friends over the years: lawyers, librarians and other talented people who have helped us grow. Among their number is one William Stock, attorney and librarian, who did volunteer work here some years ago and still keeps in close touch. Bill has written a novel called “Sarah’s Love” that is both everyday and yet unique. It is routine in that it is a story about lawyers; it is unique -to this writer’s knowledge- in that it has no violence and does not involve criminal activity. Instead, it is a love story
A chapter of the story is offered today for your reading pleasure as well as your comments.”

” It bears reiteration that this is a work of fiction; no actual person or institution is meant to be represented and any resemblance to one is coincidental.”

CHAPTER VII A few weeks after he and Sarah had parted on such good terms, Harry closed the firm at twelve noon on Wednesday, July 3rd and wished everyone a long happy holiday weekend. He stayed an hour later to do some paperwork and then Charlie drove him to his apartment to pick up Grace. Then they headed out to East Hampton on the south fork of eastern Long Island.
Twenty years ago, back when mere mortals could afford such things, Harry and Grace had bought a small cottage on a quiet street just a few minutes walk from the beach. As the years passed they were offered many times the purchase price for their home, and some entrepreneurs had even offered them larger houses in nearby towns together along with a wad of cash to get them to sell. But Harry and Grace always refused: this was their home, and they never wanted to leave it.
Harry and Grace headed out that weekend looking forward to four days of sailing, picnics and barbeques with friends and long walks under the stars at sunset.
But it didn’t work out that way.
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Published by the American Bar Association

Product Code: 4920039

Publication Date: July 2007

Global Media Will Grow But Become Less Powerful, New Book Predicts WSU Professor Argues that Mainstream Mass Media Are Losing Power to Specialized Media and Internet

“Many global mass media corporations will continue to grow in the 21st century but will become less powerful in relative terms than their predecessors, an American media sociologist predicts in a new book.

“Although global media corporations will grow and reach more people, paradoxically their ability to control the information and entertainment marketplaces will decline,” David Demers, associate professor of communication at Washington State University, writes in the History and Future of Mass Media, which was published by Hampton Press Inc. this week. “In metaphorical terms, the pie and its slices are getting larger, but each slice is proportionately smaller than the slice in the previous pie … In comparative terms, no single company or program will be able to dominate the global market to the degree that the state-run or private television broadcast networks did in Western countries during the 1950s and 1960s.”